Posted on 08/07/2007 12:43:01 PM PDT by SmithL
The late Yusuf Bey's son-in-law said Monday that he was the main news source for a series Chauncey Bailey was writing about Your Black Muslim Bakery and that he was stunned to learn the journalist may have been killed over it.
Saleem Bey, 43, said that he and Bailey were longtime acquaintances and that the two had decided a few weeks ago to collaborate for an exposé on the bakery's decline since its founder, Yusuf Bey, died and his son Yusuf Bey IV took over.
Saleem Bey, who spent 10 years working with Yusuf Bey in the bakery and is married to one of the Black Muslim leader's daughters, said he didn't think Bailey's life was at risk.
"I am saddened that his death is attached to me," Saleem Bey said. "I gave him the stories. I knew everything that was going on. I thought it was dangerous for me, not him."
Bailey, 57, was shot just before 7:30 a.m. Thursday on 14th Street near Alice Street as he was walking the last few blocks to his job as editor of the Oakland Post, a weekly paper serving the region's African American community. The next day, seven people were arrested during a raid at the bakery and three other locations in connection with a string of crimes, including Bailey's slaying. Among them was Yusuf Bey IV.
Walter Riley, an attorney for the newspaper, has said that Bailey was investigating the Muslim group's finances and alleged ties to crime, but that the paper couldn't confirm certain details and never ran the story.
Riley would not confirm that Saleem Bey was Bailey's source for the unpublished series.
Bailey had written about the bakery in the past and often pressed Saleem Bey to talk more about the inner workings of the bakery after...
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Watch your back, Saleem.
The good old ROP is at it again.
A Photoshop Opportunity if ever there was one.
And next door to it is this place:
Coffee Shop SR-71 (aka The Bulldog)
377 17th Street, Oakland, 510-251-0690
The famous urban coffee shop the Bulldog and its cannabis dispensary Coffee Shop SR-71 is the best enterprise to come out of the medical marijuana movement. Coffee Shop SR-71 opened in 2003 as the sister store to the Bulldog, and is one of only four businesses to survive Oakland’s mass closures of pot shops last year.
Named after a stealth airplane, the quaint coffee and smoothie house welcomes any customer with phenomenal prices, service, coffee, and snacks, such as one-dollar cups of cereal, milk included. In the back room, clients with doctors’ recommendations purchase cannabis goods — marijuana, edibles, and oils — in privacy and comfort.
There’s no intimidating security or flimflam. And no club beats the price for Odyssey clones — baby marijuana plants that SR-71 sells for $5. The club offers two to four strands of three grades of marijuana with prices ranging from $10 to $50; its popular midgrade pot is comparable to other club’s high grade. And the shake — hairs and leaves that fall off during packaging — sells out so quickly at $11 for two grams that “Got shake?” is somewhat of an inside joke. Among the tasty and potent edibles for sale are Reefers, Kiefkats, and NugRageous Candy Bars. SR-71 also has a monopoly on the best baker, who supplies the large brownies, cookies, and Rice Krispie treats. Mmmm. With good music and conversation all about, you only wish you could stay to enjoy your purchase right then and there. With a doctor’s note, of course.
I’ve said it before, people need to be looking into the Moorish Science Temple. The give away is in the names “Bey” and “El” are both key here.
Nice advertisement.
notice there's still glass in the window frames...
Saleem Bey, 43, said that he and Bailey were longtime acquaintances and that the two had decided a few weeks ago to collaborate for an exposé on the bakery's decline since its founder, Yusuf Bey, died and his son Yusuf Bey IV took over. Saleem Bey, who spent 10 years working with Yusuf Bey in the bakery and is married to one of the Black Muslim leader's daughters, said he didn't think Bailey's life was at risk.Nooooo, of course not. I'm sure his isn't either.
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